Hello Ivan, Ivan Petkov <ivanppet...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I'm new to both Guix and Guile/Scheme and decided to get my feet wet by > attempting to package a non-trivial Rust crate into Guix. Cool, thanks for getting in touch! > This seems like something others have tried before me with varying degrees of > success (I found this thread from a few years ago which doesn't seem to have > resolved in any way > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00306.html > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg00306.html>). > I ran into a host of issues myself, but I was able to prototype some changes > which allowed me to make some progress. Happy to keep hacking on this, but > ultimately I need some insight/guidance on the proper ways to build this out > in > Guix :) I think Danny and maybe ng0 (Cc’d) may be those the most familiar with Rust in Guix. > But before I propose any new changes, I wanted to check, what is the current > state cargo/crates in Guix from a community perspective? > > Are there any philosophical or technical blockers that preclude pulling in > packages from crates.io, or is it just a matter of chipping away at the > problem? I don’t think there are any “philosophical” blockers: as long as this is free software, which I believe is the case for most packages on crates.io, there shouldn’t be any problems. As for the technical issues, I don’t know. I remember David Craven, who wrote ‘guix import crate’, didn’t do a mass import back then, but then the ‘rust’ package in Guix was also nascent at the time so perhaps there were other problems that have been resolved since then. Anyway, I think you can go ahead and start experimenting, adding new packages, etc. Let us know how it goes, and do ping Danny and ng0 as needed! :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
